TMP Morning Memo: “Under a memo issued by the Office of Personnel Management yesterday, federal workers are permitted to talk to their co-workers about their religion, including engaging a colleague “in polite discussion of why his faith is correct and why the non-adherent should re-think his religious beliefs.” They are also allowed to engage in religious displays, conversations, or prayer in public spaces and with members of the public. All of the examples of protected conduct cited in the memo involve Christianity or Judaism, but not other religions. The memo cites the acceptability of displaying a cross, crucifix, rosary beads, mezuzah, tefillin, or Star of David, or of citing or keeping a Bible at one’s desk. It does not cite any examples of permissible workplace religious expression from Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, or other religions. Christian nationalists have long portrayed a secular workplace as one that discriminates against conservative Christians, who claim that their religious freedom demands they be allowed to share the gospel with co-workers or refuse service to prospective clients or the public on the grounds their conscience forbids same-sex marriage, for example. While the movement has long focused on private workplaces, the new OPM guidance exemplifies how the Trump administration’s plans to completely remake the federal workplace include Christianizing it. Project 2025 envisioned a broad Christianization of the federal government and American workplaces, calling on the new administration to “enact policies with robust respect for religious exercise in the workplace, including under the First Amendment, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA), Title VII, and federal conscience protection laws,” and to “provide robust accommodations for religious employees.”